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  1. Motivation=mens rea; demonstration=actus reus on FBI Issues Code Cracking Challenge · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This contest is nothing more than a fishing expedition to see those who are smart enough to break codes and brazen and stupid enough to have the testicular resources to demonstrate the same in public.

    File under the heading "Let every flower bloom".

  2. Re:without any humans ever having been involved on Using Speed Cameras To Send Tickets To Your Enemies · · Score: 1

    Do I have to mention that worn out clause 'driving is a privilege'? This allows the burden of proof to reverse. Until the Football Thugs whose ancestors taught me their language and traditions exhibit the 'fifty millimeter bronze rollers' and get their act together and fight to preserve liberties threatened and restore liberties lost, let them continue to get sloshed in the pubs and submit to the yoke of tyranny.

  3. Re:without any humans ever having been involved on Using Speed Cameras To Send Tickets To Your Enemies · · Score: 1

    ...and be detained indefinitely without charges in solitary confinement. We have an equivalent to that in the USA. It's called the Timothy McVeigh mask.

  4. Re:without any humans ever having been involved on Using Speed Cameras To Send Tickets To Your Enemies · · Score: 1

    That is because one does not need a license to walk. However, assess license points for jaywalking and that will change.

    I know that someone here will rip me a new one for suggesting more oppressive laws. We all know that [sig plagiarism] safety is the tyrant's tool; none dare oppose safety.

  5. Re:without any humans ever having been involved on Using Speed Cameras To Send Tickets To Your Enemies · · Score: 1

    Why has that loophole not been patched? This is why laws are passed that compel the vehicle owner to identify the operator lest the owner be charged with the offense. This sort of thing is usually addressed in any jurisdiction's first enactment of vehicle and traffic laws (VTL).

    Oregon, eh? Does this have anything to do with the right to assisted suicide?

  6. Re:without any humans ever having been involved on Using Speed Cameras To Send Tickets To Your Enemies · · Score: 1

    the police don't know who owns these

    I find this hard to believe that owners of such vehicles cannot be traced. That is why there is a chain of paperwork for vehicle title. This makes it impossible for a vehicle not to be owned (and thus liability be PEGGED on someone). In a nation state that is on the cutting edge of paternalism, the very idea of 'ownerless motor vehicles' is a scandal. Unidentifiable vehicles are impounded in every jurisdiction of which I know. Do police in the UK patrol the parking lots of public housing or not?

  7. Re:Giant LED light bulbs on New York City Street Lights To Go LED · · Score: 2, Informative

    The type of power supply used in LED lighting is called a 'buck/boost' converter. It is a switching supply that merely PWM's the filtered line voltage down at high frequency (40~60KHz) to the operating voltage and current of the load The difference between this and a standard switching supply is that no isolated secondary circuit is required and thus the only 'large' components are the rectified line voltage filter caps, load filter caps, choke and heatsink mounted FETs or IGBT's. This also neatly eliminates the surge problem because the operating frequencies of said supply is high enough to keep the caps relatively small.

  8. Re:I hate leds!! on New York City Street Lights To Go LED · · Score: 2, Funny

    Blue Light hazard? No wonder my eyes hurt after shopping at K-Mart.

  9. Re:How on New York City Street Lights To Go LED · · Score: 1

    The answer must contain at least one expletive.

  10. Re:Giant LED light bulbs on New York City Street Lights To Go LED · · Score: 3, Informative

    The white LEDS are doped to generate three distinct colors of light (R,G,B) whose combination yield a very cold blueshifted white light (>6500 K). If one seeks to use these for video, better check to see if the camera works well with such light.

  11. Re:flicker crashes on New York City Street Lights To Go LED · · Score: 1

    The LED tail lights are PWM controlled and I see that flicker! Wonderful! Moving epilepsy triggers on the roads and now stationary ones as well!

  12. There will always be a vulnerability on New York City Street Lights To Go LED · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    EMP generators, anyone? How about Mooninite patterns?

  13. Re:15 years from now.. on Baby To Be Born Without the Gene For Breast Cancer · · Score: 1

    Keep an eye on all of those disease-proofed humans. Wouldn't it be ironic that all of these died violent deaths in youth in all 'freak' accidents that could have never been foreseen even with all sorts of preventive measures. The parents chose the world's safest car just for protecting their GMO (genetically modified offspring), but it was no match for the liquid oxygen tanker truck with defective brakes that crossed their path, even though it was properly inspected and serviced. Enter lightning strikes on clear blue days, meteorite strikes and other events whose odds are greater than winning the PowerBall Lottery. Dare I say as if something greater than ourselves is PISSED at our attempts to subvert its sovereignty over humanity as expressed in terminal disease. So much as if to say that if not by disease then by VIOLENCE all must die before their time.

    I would not be surprised in the least at the possibility that as people become closer to genetic perfection, they exhibit more and more psychopathic and genocidal behavior by reason of the idea that they KNOW that they were purposely engineered to be 'better than the rest of us'. Enter Nietzsche; exit humanity.

  14. Re:The guy is obviously a freak. on Inventor Builds Robot Wife · · Score: 1

    Don't forget a certain defoliant made by Shiamond Damrock.

  15. Sex Fault, Cock Dumped on Inventor Builds Robot Wife · · Score: 1

    What the servo position encoders fail in the Vaginal Assembly Muscles Simulator?
    Would not the motors go full power (like injket printers with a missing encoder disk/strip) to constrict and the corresponding power surge causes the control unit to crash, keeping the VAMS in the constricted phase? What if he forgot to debur the metal parts under the polymer and these cut through the polymer sheathing and....BOBBITT!

  16. Reality/History Hacking on Inventor Builds Robot Wife · · Score: 2, Funny

    While 'fun in bed' is being had, all that is needed is someone to hack into her controls and have her spazzing out screaming "VIET CONG! VIET CONG!" with uploaded helicopter and small arms fire sound effects and an mp3 of "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones playing in the background.

  17. Political Consequences thereof... on A Quantum Linear Equation Solver · · Score: 1

    Has anyone spoken on its applications vis-a-vis cryptography and cryptanalysis?

  18. Re:I truly do not on UN Plans Asteroid Response Framework · · Score: 1

    I take it that you are familiar with the Space:1999 episode Collision Course? Due to treaties, there is a dearth of data on the characteristics of REAL nuclear explosions in interplanetary space. It may be possible to extrapolate data from the DEEP IMPACT mission. Hurling a grand piano sized hunk of metal may work for a dirty snowball, however for the city sized cannonballs of nickel-iron will require copious numbers of TellerToys(tm).

  19. Re:hmmm on UN Plans Asteroid Response Framework · · Score: 1

    Gotta watch for those little saucers with the high pitched warble. These nail you every fscking time.

  20. Re:The death penalty would stem this nonsense on Copper Thieves Jeopardize US Infrastructure · · Score: 1

    As the second greatest holder of USA government debt and the largest holder of USA trade debt, I can easily see how Chinese policy begins to affect USA internal affairs.

  21. Re:Government regulation is NOT the answer on Copper Thieves Jeopardize US Infrastructure · · Score: 1

    This holds true until BigGovt(tm) life in mother's basement impossible.

  22. Re:I wouldn't hire you on IT Job Without a Degree? · · Score: 1

    More likely than not, it means that one have a shitlad of debt to pay and that is the incentive to work hard. Debt gives employers leverage over employees. Someone who gets his degree on a full scolarship does not have such stressors and may not work as hard as someone who has perhaps six figures of Damoclean knife-edge over their necks. Such usually go on to further education to put some more ASCII characters before and/or after his legal name and in the process, get that nose into the air at the proper angle.

  23. Houston, we have a (litterbug) problem... on Dropped Shuttle Toolbag Filmed From Earth · · Score: 1

    If space baggies are the problem, Quark is the solution.

  24. Re:The bleeding edge of the American Experiment on Physicist Admits Sending Space-Related Military Secrets To China · · Score: 1

    I commented on this sort of thing recently.

    http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=997857&cid=25404853

  25. Re:Does the spider become an "illegal Alien" ? on Spider Missing After Trip To Space Station · · Score: 1

    If it enters a Russian module, Spetsnaz will make it history.
    If it enters an EU module, it will enjoy the benefits of their welfare state.
    If it enters an American module, PETA will get a court injunction to prohibit NASA personnel from harming or otherwise harassing it.
    If it enters the Ja[As the primary holder of the USA federal debt, it would not be polite to comment further ~>#*]|
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